News Limited vs Labor
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I am home usually a couple of times a year for a few weeks. I still fondly remember some of the presenters on ch 10 Sports Tonight. Pity that died.
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Are you seriously passing comment on Australian broadcasting, while living in the UK?
It would explain your intensity for the BBC.
I confess, i'm just an old fart who's turned into a political junkie whose eyes are glued to a 22inch LG Plasma on a sunday morning.
Interesting article re abc bias: https://newmatilda.com/2014/07/24/abc-biased-get-over-it
This was de riguer by tutors in 1st year arts.
"In an excellent discussion of Cater’s book, Guy Rundle took the author to task for failing to see that what he was describing was not the machinations of an elite but the unconscious expression of a socio-economic stratum; it is an ideology, not in the sense of a utopian or emancipatory scheme, but in the Marxian or Mannheimian sense of the distortion of thought inevitable in a particular social and economic context."
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Is that the best you got?
I think I understand why some people use News Ltd/Fox as their yard stick to judge whether ABC is biased. They are not used to reading/viewing facts as they are too used to opinion. I think that they are using a poor example to measure against.
The reason the ABC is one of the top three organisations people trust that you can see things as they happen (ABC24). The next day when it is reported in the Murdoch papers, I wonder whether we watched the same press conference.
I would be very interested for someone to give examples of bias since this government has been in office. The government has certainly been very generous is supplying enough stories. budget emergency, transparency, adult government, no new taxes, I could go on but surely you get the message.
You did an arts degree?
As for the extract, I'm not sure what your point is but I will say that Rundle is a pretentious blow hard (who is occasionally entertaining, at least) but Cater is a boring w***er with nothing remotely insightful or interesting to say.
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A few arts subjects not degree. Cater's book wasn't bad. Better version of Paul Sheehan
A very low bar, Meds.
Fairfax, low bar - copilots.
Any story re illegal immigrants. see allegations re Navy, refugees that were Sinhalese etc.
About as unbiased as Eddie commentating a Pies game.
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Saw a couple of videos on You Tube, spat between Russell Brand v Sean Hannity (from Fox News) on the Israel issue. America has no chance of being informed with that type of press.
Sean Hannity= Bolt.
Murdoch press alive and well everywhere.
BTW, how much is the Telegraph in Sydney? Saw that they were offering 50% off for week-end delivery.
Sean Hannity= Bolt.
Murdoch press alive and well everywhere.
BTW, how much is the Telegraph in Sydney? Saw that they were offering 50% off for week-end delivery.
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Well Murdoch is richer than ever but I do wonder what the tipping point for news papers will be. At some point these big news papers are going to be entirely online and that has to change things.
Good to see The Australian isn't letting blind hatred get in the way of basic journalistic skills like checking facts:
Quoting a fake Barrie Cassidy report, heh heh. Still, I'm sure they'll take note of it tomorrow.
Quoting a fake Barrie Cassidy report, heh heh. Still, I'm sure they'll take note of it tomorrow.
Amazing what happens when you give people a choice.
Ah yes, there we have it. The attempted condescension towards those who choose. Best we have just the ABC and their alternate version of reality. shoved down our throat.
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
No, he's just doing it for shits and giggles.
Murdoch is so successful because he gives people what they want. If he just imposed his ideology on people he would be like Fairfax / Guardian and struggle. His best selling tabloids have a large % of middle / working class readers. The Sun for example has never backed a loser at a UK election under his ownership.
The ABC can afford to impose their left wing ideology on people as they get a massive free ride from taxpayers. If they had to compete they would get slaughtered.
Circa 20% of the population hold left / hard left views. They are speaking to a small minority
Murdoch speaks for the majority. That is why the progressive sorts despise choice and attempt (pathetically all too often given their education background of Arts degrees) to belittle your average Australian.
To put it simply Murdoch pays taxes and gives choice, no one is forced to pay for Bolt. The ABC just fleeces taxpayers.
If you think the ABC is so wonderful, let them compete in the real world.
Of course he does (as does the ABC & Fairfax). You don't have to take it at face value though. That's the trouble with this country , we have had it so easy for so long , peoples bullshit detectors are not working.
One persons bullshit is another persons manna from heaven depending on what side of the bed one rises from on a clear bright sunday morning.
But who will be proved right? It will only be known later.
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